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on Oct 29, 2015 10:06:16 GMT
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Just for fun here's a different kind of lens from Yashica. One of my local-ish camera shops in SW London has turned up something new to me, a Yashica 50/2.8 enlarger lens. Thankfully it's on their website, see link below. Link
I wonder if there are any more?
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on Oct 29, 2015 19:22:38 GMT
Posted: Oct 29, 2015 19:22:38 GMT
I don't know if Yashica made others but I've been using one as a macro lens for ages and it produces sharp images though it requires a clever mount.
The piccie below shows part of my macro/micro set up: the Contax 137MD Microscope camera on the left and the 167MT with the Yashica enlarger lens next to it; on the extreme front right is Yashica's beautifully engineered microscope adapter. For serious macro work, I tend to use the ML 100 3.5 or the Zeiss 60 S-Planar, it depends on the distance I need between me and the object; and of course, for really close macro, the Contax Auto Bellows with the 100mm f4 Bellows lens...but the Yashica enlarger lens is fun to use.
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on Nov 1, 2015 9:59:51 GMT
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Yes, there are more - to my knowledge, there's a 3.5/40mm, 2.8/50mm and 4.5/75mm. All of them belong to a family of excellent enlarging lenses that were sold under various brand/trade names, originally "Osawa Tominon". Manufacturing started in the late 1970s. They are high quality 6/4 designs and compare to the best Nikon, Schneider and Rodenstock lenses. In fact, I've sold my Schneider 40mm and kept the Osawa/Yashica. I'm using these as taking lenses on a Sony A7, not for enlarging. A while ago, I posted some articles about them on the german DCC forum: Osawa Tominon lens familyOsawa Tominon / Yashica 3.5/40mm lensComparing the Yashica 2.8/50mm to Computar dL 2.8/50mmIf anyone has more information about the origin of these enlarging lenses, I'd be very interested.
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on Apr 3, 2017 15:18:23 GMT
Posted: Apr 3, 2017 15:18:23 GMT
I thought you might be amused by this oddity which I think caused questions elsewhere in the Forum:
Sorry for the indifferent quality but it's the only web image I found.
It is a Yashica enlarger lens - for the Atoron camera.
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on Apr 4, 2017 2:15:16 GMT
Posted: Apr 4, 2017 2:15:16 GMT
I thought you might be amused by this oddity which I think caused questions elsewhere in the Forum:
Sorry for the indifferent quality but it's the only web image I found.
It is a Yashica enlarger lens - for the Atoron camera.
Yeah, I thought it looked like a Russian spaceship. PF
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on Apr 16, 2017 13:48:33 GMT
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Here's a little bit more information about the "Atoron enlarging lens": Yashica Atoron Enlarging lens -- with E-Yashinon-DX 21mm f3.5 lens. It is listed as an "enlarging lens" but it is an entire unit just like the other "enlas". Black body with f-stops from f3.5 through f16. The lens has a focusing ring. The only negative carrier made for this enla-unit was 8x11mm. The unit screws into any Leica-thread (39mm) lens board. Rotating positioning collar at the top. It has two protruding tabs to make setting the f-stop on the tiny lens much easier, but they can be removed if desired. Hard to find and very desirable since it is the only enla-unit designed to work specifically with Minox-sized negatives. Minolta and Mamiya also made ENLAHEADS, sometimes called ENLAUNITS or simply ENLAS. Mamiya made FIVE versions, all designed for 10x14mm negatives. Minolta made only one but it came with TWO negative carriers. One was for 10x14mm, the other for 12x17mm negatives. You can read and see more about them at the SUBCLUB at: www.subclub.org/darkroom/enlas.htm
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on Jun 2, 2020 21:13:46 GMT
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Just to add a little more to this discussion, Yashica had TWO enlarging lenses made -- with the YASHICA NAME -- the ATORON ENAL mentioned above, and a 40mm f3.5 which was the same thing as the Tominon 40mm f3.5. It was also sold as the Hoya Super EL. Plus Tominon made a 35mm f4.5 enlarging lens not mentioned above, but listed on the SUBCLUB's enlarging lens list at: www.subclub.org/darkroom/lenses.htmThere is a fairly complete list of enlarging lenses at: www.photocornucopia.com/1061.html but it does not include the 35mm f4.5 Tominon, and some others. The Tominon's are listed under OSAWA, although some Tomioka enlarging lenses are marked OSAWA TOMINON and others simply TOMINON -- and TWO were labeled YASHICA, and one was labeled HOYA. So it's quite possible that Tomioka enlarging lenses are out there with other names/labels. Spiratone? Jessop? Porst......?
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